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Age Quotes by Edward Gibbon
- The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
- In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
- The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
- The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some…
- In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of…
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